# kat
## Translingual
### Symbol

kat
* Symbol for katal, an SI unit of measurement of catalytic activity.
* (international standards) ISO 639-2/T & ISO 639-3 language code for Georgian.

### See also

* Wiktionary's coverage of Georgian terms

## English
### Etymology 1
#### Noun

kat (plural kats)
* An ancient Egyptian unit of weight, one fiftieth of an avoirdupois pound.

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

kat (uncountable)
* Alternative spelling of khat.

### Etymology 3
#### Noun

kat (plural kats)
* Alternative form of gat.

### Anagrams

* ATK, TKA, Tak, tak

## Afrikaans
### Etymology

Inherited from Dutch kat.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kat/, [kɐt], [kät]
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

kat (plural katte)
* cat

#### Descendants

* → Xhosa: ikati
* → Zulu: ikati

## Albanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قات (kat).

### Noun

kat m (plural kate, definite kati, definite plural katet)
* floor, storey

#### Declension
## Czech
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *katъ.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈkat]

### Noun

kat m anim (possessive adjective katův)
* executioner
    Synonym: popravčí

#### Derived terms

* katan
* katovna
* katův
* katyně

### Further reading

* “kat”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “kat”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
* “kat”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

## Danish
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Norse kǫttr, from Proto-Germanic *kattuz.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kat/, [kʰæd̥], [kʰæt]
* Audio:(file)

#### Noun

kat c (singular definite katten, plural indefinite katte)
* cat

##### Derived terms

* huskat

### Etymology 2
#### Alternative forms

* khat (nonstandard)

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kat/, [ˈkʰæ̝d̥]
* Audio:(file)

#### Noun

kat c (singular definite katten, not used in plural form)
* khat

### Further reading

* “kat” in Den Danske Ordbog

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kɑt/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: kat
* Rhymes: -ɑt

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle Dutch catte, from Old Dutch *katta, from Proto-West Germanic *kattā, from Latin catta, feminine of cattus.

#### Noun

kat f (plural katten, diminutive katje n, masculine kater or mannetjeskat)
* domestic cat, pussy, Felis silvestris catus
    Synonyms: dakhaas, poes
* (by extension) feline
    Synonym: katachtige
* female cat
    Synonyms: kattin, poes
* (historical) cat, tortoise (a wheeled gallery offering protection to approaching besiegers; a medieval siege weapon)
    Synonym: schildpad
* (military) cavalier (a raised firing platform)

##### Derived terms

* afkatten
* als de kat van huis is, dansen de muizen op tafel
* civetkat
* de kat in het donker knijpen
* de kat sturen
* de kat uit de boom kijken
* een kat een kat noemen
* een kat in de zak kopen
* geselkat
* huiskat
* kat in 't bakkie
* kat-en-muisspel
* katachtig
* kater
* kathaai
* katoog
* katten
* kattenbak
* kattendoorn
* kattengat
* kattengejank
* kattenjong
* kattenklauw
* kattenkop
* kattenkruid
* kattenkwaad
* kattenluik
* kattenmoeder
* kattenoog
* kattenpis
* kattenstaart
* kattenvoer
* kattenvrouwtje
* kattenwas
* kattig
* kattin
* katuil
* katvanger
* katvogel
* katzwijm
* lapjeskat
* loopgraafkat
* maak dat de kat wijs
* mannetjeskat
* moeraskat
* raskat
* rietkat
* straatkat
* voor de kat zijn viool
* vrouwtjeskat
* wijfjeskat
* wilde kat
* zeekat
* zwerfkat

##### Related terms

* kitten

##### Descendants

* Afrikaans: kat
** → Xhosa: ikati
** → Zulu: ikati
* Jersey Dutch: kāt
* Negerhollands: katje (from the Dutch diminutive)
* Skepi Creole Dutch: kat

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

kat
* inflection of katten:
** first/second/third-person singular present indicative
** imperative

### Etymology 3
#### Noun

kat m (uncountable)
* Alternative spelling of qat

### Further reading

* “kat” in Van Dale Onlinewoordenboek, Van Dale Lexicografie, 2007.

### Anagrams

* tak
* t.k.a.

## Haitian Creole
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kat/

### Etymology 1

Derived from French quatre (“four”).

#### Numeral

kat
* four

### Etymology 2

Derived from French carte (“map”).

#### Noun

kat
* map

## Louisiana Creole
### Etymology

Inherited from French quatre (“four”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kat/
* Rhymes: -at

### Numeral

kat
* four

## Malay
### Etymology

Clipping of dekat.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [kat]
** Audio (Malaysia):(file)
* Rhymes: -at
* Hyphenation: kat

### Preposition

kat
* (informal) Alternative form of dekat.

### Further reading

* “kat” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

## Mauritian Creole
### Etymology

Derived from French quatre.

### Numeral

kat
* four

#### Derived terms

* kat ven
* kat ven dis

## Old Czech
### Etymology

Probably inherited from Proto-Slavic *katъ.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (13th CE) /ˈkat/
* IPA: (15th CE) /ˈkat/

### Noun

kat m pers (relational adjective katóv)
* executioner

#### Descendants

* Czech: kat

### Further reading

* Jan Gebauer (1903–1916) “kat”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění

## Polish
### Etymology

From dialectal Proto-Slavic *katъ. Cognate to Czech kat, Slovak kat, Upper Sorbian kat and Lower Sorbian kat.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkat/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -at
* Syllabification: kat

### Noun

kat m pers
* executioner, hangman, headsman
    Synonym: oprawca
* (figurative) torturer, tormentor
    Synonym: oprawca

#### Derived terms

* kaci
* katowny
* katowski
* katowanie
* katownia
* katownictwo
* katownik
* katusz
* katusza
* katować
* skatować

#### Descendants

* → Old Ruthenian: катъ (kat)
** Belarusian: кат (kat)
** Carpathian Rusyn: кат (kat)
** Ukrainian: кат (kat)
** → Russian: кат (kat) (dialectal)

### Noun

kat m animal
* three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus)
    Synonyms: ciernik, kolka, czart

#### Declension
### Further reading

* kat in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* kat in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Romani
### Etymology

* Inherited from Prakrit 𑀓𑀢𑁆𑀢𑀺𑀬𑀸 (kattiyā), 𑀓𑀢𑁆𑀢𑀺𑀬 (kattiya), from Sanskrit कर्त्त्री (karttrī).
* Inherited from Sanskrit कर्तरि (kartari).

### Noun

kat f (nominative plural katǎ)
* scissors

### References

* 1 2 Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “karttrī”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 145
* 1 2 3 4 Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “kat”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 137b
* ↑ Marcel Courthiade (2009) “i/e kat, -ǎ- ʒ. -ǎ, -ěn-”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 190a
* ↑ Andrea Scala (2020) “Romani Lexicon”, in Yaron Matras, Anton Tenser, editors, The Palgrave Handbook of Romani Language and Linguistics, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 92

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قات (kat). Compare Turkish kat.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kât/

### Noun

kȁt m (Cyrillic spelling ка̏т)
* (Croatia) floor, storey
    Synonyms: (Croatia) zboj, (Bosnia, Serbia) sprȁt

#### Declension
### See also

* prizemlje

### References

* “kat”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025
* Škaljić, Abdulah (1966) Turcizmi u srpskohrvatskom jeziku, Sarajevo: Svjetlost, page 400

## Slovak
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *katъ. Cognates include Polish kat, Czech kat, Lower Sorbian kat, and Upper Sorbian kat.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [kat]
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

kat m pers (relational adjective katovský)
* executioner, hangman

#### Derived terms

* katovstvo

### Further reading

* “kat”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

## Swedish
### Alternative forms

* khat

### Noun

kat c
* khat (a shrub, including when used as a recreational drug)

#### Declension
### References

* kat in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* kat in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

## Turkish
### Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قات (kat), from Proto-Turkic *kat (“layer”).

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

kat (definite accusative katı, plural katlar)
* floor, storey, level
* fold, layer
* times
    On kat daha güçlüTen times stronger
* (mathematics) multiple

#### Declension
## Volapük
### Noun

kat (nominative plural kats)
* cat (an animal of the family Felidae)

#### Declension

$^1$ status as a case is disputed $^2$ in later, non-classical Volapük only

#### Hyponyms

* hikat (“male cat, he-cat, tomcat, tom”)
* jikat (“female cat, she-cat, queen”)
* katil (“small cat, kitty”)
* katül (“young cat, kitten”)

#### Derived terms

* domakat
* flätakat
* hokat
* jokat
* katabeit
* katabom
* katabun
* katagobad
* katagöb
* kataher
* katakap
* katakluv
* katalineg
* katalog
* katalogoin
* katamaläd
* katamiov
* katanatäl
* katapläd
* katasüm
* katavut
* katik
* katöf

## West Frisian
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Frisian katte, from Proto-West Germanic *kattā.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kɔt/

### Noun

kat c (plural katten, diminutive katsje)
* cat

#### Further reading

* “kat”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011